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Prophets and Kings
The voice of the Son of God is heard calling forth the sleeping
saints, and as the prophet beholds them coming from the prison house
of death, he exclaims, “Thy dead men shall live, together with my
dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for
thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.”
“Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,
And the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
Then shall the lame man leap as an hart,
And the tongue of the dumb sing.”
Isaiah 26:19
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35:5, 6
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In the visions of the prophet, those who have triumphed over sin
and the grave are now seen happy in the presence of their Maker,
talking freely with Him as man talked with God in the beginning.
“Be ye glad,” the Lord bids them, “and rejoice forever in that which I
create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in My people: and the voice of
weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.” “The
inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall
be forgiven their iniquity.”
“In the wilderness shall waters break out,
And streams in the desert.
And the parched ground shall become a pool,
And the thirsty land springs of water.”
“Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree,
And instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree.”
“And an highway shall be there, and a way,
And it shall be called The way of holiness;
The unclean shall not pass over it;
But it shall be for those:
The wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.”
“Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her
warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath